Keep those viral e-mails coming, friends. Otherwise, I’d be ill-informed about the world and unlikely to survive.
On a happier note, you can read my article about bread pudding here. Because I know you all have some stale bread or cake just waiting to be transformed into a yummy dessert.
Happy New Year.
Happy holidays from the crazy Mountain Xpress team; i.e., people who care about commas and font styles, most of the time, at least.
Forgot to link to my column this week before now. So here’s the update on Rocky, Asheville’s biggest feline loser.
Also, if you’re celebrating, Merry Christmas. My kids have been awake and wired since 4:30ish (yes, that’s a..m.), so we’re all about to pass out. But it’s been a lovely day.
Now I need to get inspired by my own cat and cut back the carbs.
Kisses and hugs and the dregs of the eggnog.
This week’s column:
If you’re a parent, and you haven’t heard of Zhu Zhu pets, you either live on Mars or you’re my spouse (in other words— oblivious).
Unfortunately, I do know about Zhu Zhu pets — this year’s holiday toy craze.
Zhu Zhus are toy hamster robots with cutesy monikers like Num Nums, Chunk and Mr. Squiggles. They’re “interactive,” which supposedly means they’re almost as much fun as real hamsters. They may be preferable to live rodents, in fact, since they don’t eat or poop or do inappropriate stuff with their hamster friends in front of the kids. At least that’s what the marketers want us to believe.
Read the rest here.
This may be the most important Asheville article you read this week. New beer releases from Highland and Pisgah Brewing? Check. New amphitheatre construction at Pisgah? Check. How to store beer properly? Check. Dets about Asheville’s Winter Warmer Beer Fest? Check.
This is Chris at Saturday's SantaCon, which has nothing to do with this post, except he's in Craggie Brewing Company, and I'm pimping my Brews News.
Yes, we’re rocking the craft beer scene. Locally, at least.
In other news, I don’t have an on-line column this week, because the Not Appropriate for School column got bumped from print a few weeks back, but it’s in print today. If that makes any sense at all.
Other stuff I wrote that was published this week includes a Guide to holiday activities for kids (and their adults) and an update on the City of Asheville pulling the plug on public ice skating this year.
In other words, I had way too many “butt in chair” hours last week, and after next week, I’m taking two weeks off from writing everything except my parenting column. I’m saying “no.” Yes, I am. Really.
